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In the digital age that we live in today, we are constantly exposing our personal information online. From using cell phones and GPS devices to online shopping and sending e-mail, the things we do and say online leave behind ever-growing trails of personal information. The ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û believes that Americans shouldn’t have to choose between using new technology and keeping control of your private information. Each week, we feature some of the most interesting news related to technology and civil liberties that we’ve spotted from the previous week.

[Wired – David Kravets]

"The New York chapter of the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û has released an Android application allowing mobile-phone users to easily capture police patdowns on video, which is then automatically uploaded to the rights group’s servers."

[ars technica – Jacqui Cheng]

"According to security researchers Yair Amit and Adi Sharabani, the app then transmits this information to LinkedIn's servers without any clear indication to the user that this is hapening—a throwback to the that revealed the social networking app () had been transmitting users' contact lists to a remote server without explicit user consent."

See Also [The Verge – Aaron Souppouris]

See Also [New York Times – Nicole Perlroth]

[Read Write Web – Antone Gonsalves]

"The tactics used in the massive online protests that helped convince the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills earlier this year brought new weight to Internet-based activism."

[ars technica – Nate Anderson]

"A federal judge estimates that his fellow federal judges issue a total of 30,000 secret electronic surveillance orders each year—and the number is probably growing."

[Wall Street Journal - Joel Schectman and Jessica E. Vascellaro]

"To avoid the limits of Apple's rules, ad networks that serve advertisements within mobile apps have started using new identifiers that collect information like location and preferences as the user moves across apps."

[ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û – Chris Conley]

When a number of bars in San Francisco agreed to install facial detection cameras to collect and broadcast demographic information about the bar’s patrons, the local community lashed out – not only at SceneTap, the developer of the service, but also at the bars who agreed to use it.

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